/lit/ - Literature

>>16474742
not who you responded to but I lead an exciting social life, got /fit/, got a good degree with a good job that pays me well, groom myself and dress well, and I'm a 24 yo virgin. I dont even know how to solve this problem. my day-to-day life at places like my job or gym is devoid of women, my friends are all single guys, apps are just fully of women who either dont respond or ghost

>>14821389
>it's another episode of 'normalfag can't comprehend other people's suffering'

>>14704301
Ouch, my nerve

>>11936313
Some book of aforisms by Scopenhauer.

>>11069956
how do I improve my life

THE MOTIVATION:

I’m a natural reader, and I used to read voraciously. It's in my blood to read, so I'm glad that I'm getting back into it after a long lapse. Over the years of browsing /his/, /lit/, /sci/, Reddit, and various other podcasts and forums, I’ve accumulated a vast and convoluted list of book recommendations from all over the place. There are so many books that I've wanted to read, so many books that I started and never finished, and so many charts that I've saved, that the sheer amount of choice is killing me. I know that I HAVE to stop worrying about “getting it right” and that I HAVE to stop worry about what I might miss, so I’ve made a commitment to just start reading: 1) /lit/’s starter kit, 2) a few major-related textbooks, and 3) a good philosophy anthology.

End of story, right? Wrong. I don’t know what to do with my old book wish list. I can’t let it go out of my sense of autism, or maybe I should call it obsession or hoarding. Maybe I should just delete the list, but I’m afraid of forgetting to cover the works on it. And they're all choices that I value a lot, like Faulkner, Stirner, Engels, Girard, Lasch, Hayek, Deleuze, Hollecbecq, Morrison, Spengler, Rorty, Rawls, etc., that I just don't want to throw all the recommendations into the trash and start anew. And even if I work organically towards these books and rediscover them anyway, how am I going to keep track of them all, especially when I move out of college? I can’t keep kicking the can down the road, because I know it will bother me later.

>order a book used to save money
>huge sections highlighted with multiple colors of ink

>>6852379
His existence, like all human existence, is an unending nightmare from which he cannot wake.

>ywn publish that novel
>you don't know what you're doing with your life
>you are incredibly lonely
>you will always be a depressed loser